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01-23-2011, 09:38 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Dude, I don't even know where I live anymore.
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Ooooo. Isacc Asimov, forgot about him. Only read I, Robot. Before the movie though, so it isn't as pathetic as it sounds.
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01-23-2011, 11:52 AM
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#52
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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I have Isaac Asimov's autograph and of course the entire Foundation and the Robot series.
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01-23-2011, 12:12 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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Originally Posted by Mr E Nigma
Alan, how you been man? Still slayin' gods and what not?
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Hi man, not bad, but not doing anything magnanimously great, just trying to stay alive like any Juarenze and trying to publish a new interpretation of one sentence by one dead guy like any philosophy major.
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You fucking people [war veterans] are only a step below entitled rich kids, the only difference being you had to do and witness horrible things, instead of being given everything.
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real classy
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01-23-2011, 12:15 PM
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#54
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Jilly. Don't toy with me. I must have an answer.
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Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak.
Hula, hula, said the witches. - Norman Mailer
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01-23-2011, 12:28 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Yo Jilly, how come Romeo & Juliet is your favorite Shakespeare?
this is a genuine question and is DEFINITELY NOT a cheesy way to steer the conversation onto the nature of love via literary romance, so that we can have a conversation fraught with a thousand different meanings, each emerging shyly from a different corner of the heart to turn its face to this... LIGHT between us. Like a sunflower opening itself up to the sky.
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All pleasure is relief from tension. - William S. Burroughs
Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak.
Hula, hula, said the witches. - Norman Mailer
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01-23-2011, 12:35 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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No no, Macbeth is my favorite Shakespeare play.
I was mocking Macbeth because you must have seen that it is true that Macbeth is still the cliché Shakespeare favorite of people who know just enough about Shakespeare to go beyond Romeo and Juliet but not enough to go beyond, say, Othello.
Macbeth is the Romeo and Juliet for those whose high school English Lit teacher went a little further in detail with Shakespeare.
I still love Macbeth, though.
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You fucking people [war veterans] are only a step below entitled rich kids, the only difference being you had to do and witness horrible things, instead of being given everything.
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real classy
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01-23-2011, 12:44 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Is it the part where they kill the king that pumps you up? But... he's a GOOD king and his death and the rise of the common man is seen as a huge fall from grace. I'd have thought it would've offended your political sensibilities.
It's cool that you're not ready to talk about the other thing yet. I will wait for you.
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All pleasure is relief from tension. - William S. Burroughs
Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak.
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01-23-2011, 01:45 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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My favourite Shakespeare is Edward II.
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06-01-2012, 06:50 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Poe is overrated and I believe dead, hence his Goth appeal.
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06-08-2012, 01:51 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2011
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I have nothing against people's love of Poe though I personally probably read more Non-Fiction than Fiction.
My favorite author is rebellious to a fault, half the time doesn't get anything done, is always trying to be an editor and hates the idea of anyone else doing it.. needs a six pack of beer, has some ground turkey in the fridge that's probably thawed out by now, and doesn't like mathematics.
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06-11-2012, 11:02 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: northcoast california
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For poetry I prefer Baudelaire with Fleurs du mal. Poe is an icon of dark dreams.
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